Literate Programming Simplified (Abstract)

When it was introduced, literate programming meant WEB.
Desire to use WEB with languages other than Pascal led to the
implementation of many versions.
WEB is complex, and the difficulty of using WEB creates
an artificial barrier to
experimentation with literate programming.
noweb provides much of the functionality of
WEB, with a fraction of the complexity.
noweb is independent of the target programming language, and
it supports formatting with TeX, LaTeX, and HTML.
noweb is extensible, because it uses two
representations of programs: one easily edited by authors and one
easily manipulated by tools.

This paper explains how to use the noweb tools and gives
examples of their use.
It sketches the implementation of the tools and describes how new
tools are added to the set.

The full paper is available
as scanned PDF, which is quite large (5MB),
or the slightly smaller DejaVu format (3.7MB).
Avoid the published version; it is littered with misprints.